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lol. It certainly wasn't by design, but we had some lean years and my kids went without some of the stuff that other kids had. They grew up not very materialistic at all, they appreciate things more and they also know the value of a dollar much more than their rich friends.
Granted, I am their Mom so I am biased, but I think they are generally nicer to all other people than their friends who were raised with much more money and were handed everything.
I agree, if that is all I had to go on. I'd want to know more about the school given the opportunity to choose.
My reason for choosing the affluent school:
(****YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY****)
Cast aside the snobby people etc...they will be anywhere anyway.
In a school where there are more affluent families, there tend to be families that have only one parent working. In a school where there is low SES, both parents often need to work to survive.
I know this is not always the case, but in my experience, it is what I have seen.
What this means is that parent volunteerism is more likely just because you have parents that actually CAN volunteer their time. This does not mean the lower SES school parents don't care, but just that they may not have the opportunity to be there much of the time.
I have been at schools where there have been stay-at-home parents that volunteer almost all day, every day. What this does is it gives the staff and teachers needed help. My kids' teachers could really use helpers with math and readers of different levels, and generally all sorts of stuff.
My reason for wanting to know more:
I am not sure of the correlation between PTA/fundraising and SES because the elem down the street from ours was Title 1 and had a lower SES than ours but had a kick-ass PTA that was huge and involved. The PTA at a school can help a lot. Ours gets magazines for the classrooms and pays for field trips.
I have seen this PTA involvement (or lack thereof) make a huge difference in the school and would really want to learn more about it before making a final decision between two schools.
If test scores and the quality of education were really equal (We all know that is pure fantasy) I would rather my child be the richest kid in a poor school. They could learn a lot from their peers and not be surrounded by as much of the materialistic attitudes that are prevalent in upper class schools.
Overall school performance is very heavily correlated to the income level of the student body. So I would prefer my kids go to schools where most of the kids have higher incomes, regardless of my own income.
Overall school performance is very heavily correlated to the income level of the student body. So I would prefer my kids go to schools where most of the kids have higher incomes, regardless of my own income.
True, this is the reality of the situation but the op was saying that if the test scores and education was equal (fantasy), which would you choose?
All that other stuff is not equal and it's silly to talk as if it is.
Silly or not, that was the question posed in the op.
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